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Spanish chivalric romances in English translation
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 2016Anthony Munday translated most of the Spanish chivalric romances that were printed in England between 1588 and 1619, thus becoming an essential figure in this branch of the English book trade. His approach to the target texts and his translation method offer invaluable information about contemporary ideas on translation.
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2014
Chapter 3: The Significance of English Chivalric Romances describes the main features of English chivalric romances: all-embracing idealism; overarching motifs, like separation-and reunion, exile-and-return, sieges, and quests; typical characters: ladies, knights, stewards true or false, and fair unknowns; amatory motifs: courtly love, intermediaries ...
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Chapter 3: The Significance of English Chivalric Romances describes the main features of English chivalric romances: all-embracing idealism; overarching motifs, like separation-and reunion, exile-and-return, sieges, and quests; typical characters: ladies, knights, stewards true or false, and fair unknowns; amatory motifs: courtly love, intermediaries ...
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Chivalric Romance and Anti-Romance
2018FANTASY LITERATURE IS in some ways a direct descendent of medieval romance, though it picked up influences from various genres and ideologies on its way to the late twentieth century, when George R.R. Martin began writing A Song of Ice and Fire . Authors such as William Morris, Lord Dunsany, and E.R.
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2. The Survival of English Chivalric Romances, in Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance, 2nd ed
2014Chapter 2: The Survival of English Chivalric Romances provides an account of the documentary evidence of manuscripts, entries, printings, and adaptations which detail the survival of English chivalric romances. The discussion considers other cultural artifacts and related literary kinds which include materials from the tradition of these romances in ...
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Tasso on Spenser: The Politics of Chivalric Romance
The Yearbook of English Studies, 1991Abstract: Originally published in volume 21 of the Yearbook of English Studies (1991), this essay considers the relationship between Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581) and Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590), and the ways in which the former can be an aid to interpretation of the latter.
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2014
Chapter 7: King Lear: Courtly Romance and Chivalric Restoration sees the opening perversions of and developing machinations of courtly love as means leading to the undoing of Edmund, Goneril, and Regan. It sees Edgar, the instrument of their undoing, fulfilling his obligations to father and godfather, as the fair unknown made so by internal exile and ...
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Chapter 7: King Lear: Courtly Romance and Chivalric Restoration sees the opening perversions of and developing machinations of courtly love as means leading to the undoing of Edmund, Goneril, and Regan. It sees Edgar, the instrument of their undoing, fulfilling his obligations to father and godfather, as the fair unknown made so by internal exile and ...
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The Audience as Co-Creator of the First Chivalric Romances
The Yearbook of English Studies, 1981Who comprised the audience for chivalric romance? What expectations did they bring to their encounters with the first self-consciously fictional narratives of the modern European tradition, composed for them by Chretien de Troyes, Gautier d'Arras, and other twelfth-century poets in the elegant cadences of the courtly French vernacular?
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